Faculty

Dr. Cyrus Shahabi

Director and Professor
Chief Scientist and Founder of ClearPath

Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science - University of Southern California (1996)
  • MS in Computer Science - University of Southern California (1993)
  • BS in Computer Engineering - Sharif University of Technology, Iran (1989)
Email:
Telephone: (213) 740-8162

Visiting Faculty





PhD Students

Yuehan Qin

Education
    B.S. in Computer Sciences and Cartography & Geographic Information Systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2018-2022)
Email: yuehanqi@usc.edu
Telephone: (213) 821-1462 (Lab)

Maria Despoina Siampou

Education
    M.Sc. in Computer Science, National and Kapodistrian
    University of Athens (2020-2022) B.Sc. in Computer Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2016-2020)
Email: siampou@usc.edu
Telephone: (213) 821-1462 (Lab)

Arash Hajisafi

Education
    BSc in Computer Engineering - Amirkabir University of Technology (2017-2021)
Email: hajisafi@usc.edu
Telephone: (213) 821-1462 (Lab)

Nripsuta Saxena

Education
    ME in Computational Science and Engineering, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 2016-2018)
    Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology, Indira Gandhi Technical University for Women (Delhi, India, 2012-2016)
Email: nsaxena@usc.edu
Telephone: (213) 821-1462 (Lab)

[On leave] Rey Pocius

Education
    NSF Fellow
    B.S. in Computer Science in Oregon State University (2015-2019)
Email: pocius@usc.edu
Telephone: (213) 821-1462 (Lab)

Sepanta Zeighami

Research Assistant

Projects: Data analysis and machine learning, encryption
Education
    MPhil in Computer Science - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2019)
    BEng in Computer Science - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2017)
Email: zeighami@usc.edu
Telephone: (213) 821-1462 (Lab)

Haowen Lin

Research Assistant

Projects: Street Cleanliness Classification
Education
    BS in Computer Science - University of Southern California (2019)
Email: haowenli@usc.edu
Telephone: (213) 821-1462 (Lab)

Dimitrios Stripelis

Research Assistant

Projects:TransDec
Education
    MS in Computer Science(Data Science), University of Southern California (expected 2016)
    BS in Computer Science, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece(2014)
Email: stripeli@usc.edu

Chrysovalantis Anastasiou

Research Assistant/Systems Administrator

Education
    M.S. in Computer Science - University of Southern California
    BS in Computer Science - University of Cyprus (2015)
Email: canastas@usc.edu

Master Students

Shangrou Sun

Research Assistant

Projects:Health Data Analytics
Education: MS in Computer Science
Email: shangros@usc.edu

Sitao Min

Research Assistant

Projects:Health Data Analytics
Education: MS in Computer Science
Email: sitaomin@usc.edu

Jay Jungwon Yoon

Research Assistant

Projects:TVDP
Education: MS in Computer Science
Email: jungwony@usc.edu

Dejia Hao

Research Assistant

Projects:ADMS
Education
    B.S. in Automation - Harbin Institute of Technology
    M.S. in Electronical Engineering - University of Southern California
Email: dejiahao@usc.edu

Arvind Bright

Research Assistant

Projects:MediaQ
Education : M.S. in Computer Science - University of Southern California
Email: apbright@usc.edu

Akshansh

Research Assistant

Projects:MediaQ
Education: M.S. in Computer Science - University of Southern California
Email: akshansh@usc.edu

Undergraduate Students

Xiaochen Yang

Research Assistant

Projects: Crime Forecaster
Education B.S. in Computer Science, and Applied and Computational Mathematics - University of Southern California Email: xiaochey@usc.edu

Abbas Zaidi

Research Assistant

Projects: Health Data Analytics
Education
    B.S. in Computer Science - University of Southern California
Email: abbaszai@usc.edu

Matthew Lim

Provost's Research Fellowship, Research Assistant

Projects: Public Transportation Analytics
Education
  • B.S. in Computer Science - University of Southern California
Email: lim643@usc.edu

Brian Plotnik

Viterbi Research Scholars, Research Assistant

Projects: Health data analytics
Education
BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Email: bplotnik@usc.edu

Roopal Kondepudi

Research Assistant

Projects: MediaQ
Education
BS in Computer Science
Email: roopal.kondepudi@gmail.com

Yingzhe Liu

Research Assistant

Projects: Health data analytics
Education
BS in Computer Science
Email: yingzhe@usc.edu

PostDoc Alumni

Min Young Mun

Now Principal Researcher, Machine Learning Lab, AI&SW Center, Samsung Eletronics

Email: minyoung.mun@samsung.com


Sanjay Purushotham

Now Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Email: psanjay@umbc.edu


Tobias Emrich

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Lehr- und Forschungseinheit für Datenbanksysteme Oettingenstr.

Email:emrich@dbs.ifi.lmu.de


Tim Marsh

Now Honours Program Director, Games Design Lecturer in Griffith Film School (GFS), Griffith University, Australia

Email: t.marsh@griffith.edu.au



Yinan Jing

Now Assistant Professor in School of Computer Science, Fudan University

Email: jingyn@fudan.edu.cn


Hyokyeong Lee

Email:



Samaneh Hejazi

Email: smnhej@yahoo.com


Yinghao Cai

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Email: caiyinghao@gmail.com


Liyue Fan

Now Assistant Professor in the State University of New York at Albany

Email:lfan4@albany.edu


Han Su

Now Associate Professor in the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Email:suan.sue@gmail.com


PhD Alumni

Ritesh Ahuja

Graduated in June 2022

Now at Oracle

Giorgos Constantinou

Graduated in Sep 2021

Software Development Engineer at Amazon

Email: gconst02@gmail.com


Mingxuan Yue

Graduated in Aug 2021

Software Engineer at Google

Email: yuemingxuan88@gmail.com


Kien Nguyen

Graduated in Aug 2021

Research Scientist at Facebook

Email: kiennd@fb.com


Luan Tran

Graduated in Aug 2021

Investment Software Researcher at Worldquant LLC

Email: lutran@worldquant.com


Abdullah Alfarrarjeh

Graduated in Dec 2019

Assistant Professor at German Jordanian University (GJU)

Email: abdullah.alfarrarjeh@gju.edu.jo


Yaguang Li

Graduated in May 2019

Senior Research Engineer at Google Brain

Email: yaguang@google.com


Mohammad Asghari

Graduated in Aug 2018

Software Engineer at Google

Email: masghari@google.com


Ying Lu

Graduated in May 2018

AI Researcher at DiDi Research America

Email: yinglu@didiglobal.com


Hien To

Graduated in October 2017

Software Engineer at Amazon

Email: hiento@amazon.com


Dingxiong Deng

Graduated in August 2017

Software Engineer at Facebook

Email: dengdx@gmail.com


Rose Yu

Graduated in May 2017

Assistant Professor at Northeastern University

Email: roseyu@northeastern.edu


Afsin Akdogan

Graduated in October 2015

Software Engineer at Google

Email: afsin@google.com


Huy Pham

Graduated in June 2015

Now at Oracle

Bei Pan

Graduated in May 2014

Applied Researcher at Microsoft

Email: to be updated


Houtan Shirani-Mehr

Graduated in June 2013

Software Engineer at Apple

Email: hshirani[@]gmail.com


Ali Khodaei

Graduated in May 2013

Product Manager at Yahoo

Email: alik [at] yahoo-inc.com


Leyla Kazemi

Graduated in October 2012

Now Program manager in the Windows Server and System Center division at Microsoft

Email: leylak[at]microsoft.com


Ugur Demiryurek

Graduated in August 2012

Now Research Scientist at IMSC, University of Southern California

Email: demiryur[at]usc.edu


Ling Hu

Graduated in July 2012

Now Software Engineer at Google

Email:


Songhua Xing

Graduated in December 2011

Now Researcher at IBM research Watson

Email:


Ali Khosh

VP of Emerging Technology at Qaundary Peak Research

Email: ali[at]quandarypeak.com


Hyunjin Yoon

Graduated in September 2009

Now Senior Member of Engineering Staff

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Email:


Mehrdad Jahangiri

Graduated in Aug 2008

Now Software Engineer at Google

Email:


SunHee Yoon

Graduated in May 2008

Postdoc at Stanford University

Email:


Mehdi Sharifzadeh

Graduated in May 2007

Now at Google

Email:


Kiyoung Yang

Graduated in May 2007

Now Senior Data & Applied Scientist at Microsoft

Email: kiyan[at]microsoft.com


Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

Graduated in December 2006

Now Postdoctoral Research Associate at InfoLab

Email:


Ching-Chien (Jason) Chen

Graduated in May 2005

Now Senior Software Engineer - Search at Disney Interactive

Email: chingchien.chen[at]gmail.com

Mohammad-Reza Kolahdouzan

Graduated in August 2004

Position immediately after graduation: Yahoo!

Current position: Fox Interactive Media, Fox Audience Network

Email:


Shu-Yuen Dean Yao (Didi Yao)

Graduated in August 2003

Position immediately after graduation: Intel

Now Sr. Technical Marketing Manager at VMware, Inc

Email:


Yi-Shin Chen

Graduated in Nov 2002

Now at Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University (Faculty)

Email:


Maytham H. Safar

Graduated in Sep 2000

Now at Kuwait University (Faculty)

Email:


Ali Dashti

Graduated in 1999

Now at Kuwait University (Faculty)

Email:


Mohammad Alshayeji

Graduated in 1999

Now at Kuwait University (Faculty)

Email:


Master and Bachelor Alumni

John Cutone: That’s It

Vinuta Hedge: Amazon Lab126

Jingyun Yang: USC

Summer Seo: Dell Technologies

Jianfa Lin: Amazon

Sumeet Agrawal: Microsoft

Shivnesh Rajan : Facebook

Hyunjun Park : IBM

Akshay Deshmukh : Oracle

Suveena Thanawala : USC

Chengyi Chen : USC

Nihar Agrawal : USC

Charalambos Poullis: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University

Milad Ali Ershaghi: Schlumberger, Senior Software Engineer

Michael Ciesielka: Now startup

Ashley Luo: Now at Verizon Data Analytics Team

Ari Summer: AdGenomics

Mike Yerou: USC

Junyuan Shi: Now an Engineer at Qualcomm

Meha Agrawal : Goldman Sachs, Technology Analyst

Jingyi Du: Microsoft, SharePoint SE

Shireesh Asthana: Facebook, Platform Stability Engineer

Nicholas Bopp: Microsoft, Software Development Engineer

Colin Gu: VMware

Grady Laksmono: Zynga Inc, Software Engineer

Vanessa Kuroda: NASA Ames

Arjun Rihan: Pixar Animation Studios, Technical Director.

Yosuke Shimizu: Beancube

Erdem Ergin: Wolverine Trading, LLC. Software Engineer.

Fernando Arreola: Boeing

Ning Jiang: PayPal of eBay, Inc.

Farid Parvini: PhD student, USC. Work at Dentistry 21

Shirin Eghtesadi: TeraDyne

Rolfe Schmidt

Beom Kun Kim: InfoLab, USC

Soojung Hyun: Helio

Sahar Mastoureshgh : Warner Bros

Minyoung Mun: PhD Student, UCLA

Farnaz Azmoodeh: Google

Bahareh Navai: Deluxe Digital Studios

Dimitris Sacharidis: PhD Student in Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Jigesh Vora: Wilshire Associates

Hezhi (Eddy) Ai: Alcatel

Yi-Wen Chang: Integrated Decision Systems [Tel:(310) 478-4015 ext 240]

Brian Ellenberger: Georgia Tech. (PhD Student)

Adil Faisal: Microsoft

Jabed Faruque: NCR

Shuping Jia: Intuit, Inc.

Ning Jiang: Synopsys, Inc

Chen-Ling (Ariel) Lin:

Ching-Sung Lin: Cisco

Rodrigo Lode: Microsoft

Soham Mehta: eBay

William C.J. Meyer: Technology Consultant

Seong Rim Nam: Fetch Technologies

Saifur Rahman: NCR

Nadeem Rana: NCR

Vishal Shah: MBA at Univ. of Michigan Business School

Gautam Shanbhag: Amazon

Michael (Jooso) Song: General Electrics

Chung-hao Tan: IBM Almaden

Wugang Zhao: Oracle [Tel:(650) 607-5593]

Hong Zhu: Network Associates [Tel:(310) 737-1647]

Jessie Chen: Symantec Corporation [Tel:(310) 449-4987]

Alexei Naumann : Muyo, Mobile App Developer

Yu Sun: Facebook

Jiayun Ge: Microsoft

Daniel Cantwell: SpaceX